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Can you elaborate on the "recognition of self" bit?

Very cool. Was there a specific framework or library you used to make these demos besides just Three JS?

Wow this is amazing!

Nice reference, thanks for posting. Added to my collection of references here: https://www.are.na/john-palmer/spatial-software

I’d love to hear more about your work.

Yes, you’re certainly right about that. I often find that the gallery view in Zoom is the best possible interface. And the limitations of real life might not be better on a screen. But I’m still left wondering...isn’t something more creative possible here?

yes, this is what tik tok is most famous for

This is helpful. Core takeaway at the end: "That suggests that to get the best of both worlds – to minimize the Work Premium as well as the work of running a full fundraise – founders should use pre-emptive offers to run an accelerated, abbreviated process with a handful of select investors. The way to do this is for founders to make sure they are cultivating relationships with a subset of investors they think would be good partners for their company far in advance of their actual raise."

Holy shit! This is incredible. This was a product I've been dreaming about making, I can't believe it already exists. I wish I'd seen this before!

babycastles is awesome, pumped for you guys!

I'd be open to selling my property management app Apt. (www.aptbykhaki.com)

Built the product but never moved forward with it.

I built this service using Instagram before

suuuure

This is really cool. I dreamed of something like this back when I first started coding in college, but there wasn't really anything available that could do the job.

On the internet, we spend even more time looking at other people, so I’d say mimetic desire is even more intense.

I would guess Median is also 2.

Hi everyone,

Last year, we started playing around with smart contracts for Ethereum. We thought it was way too difficult to get started with all the different tools out there. That led us to make Pragma (www.withpragma.com). It's a tool where you can write, deploy, and interact with Ethereum smart contracts all in your browser. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the product, from what other features you would find useful, to picking holes in the product. I'm also curious to hear if/what you're building with smart contracts.

Discord is just an integration we offer. We also have a web wallet that lets you send tokens to anyone by email or username.

Is there a reason you didn't use the SafeMath library for protecting against overflows?

https://ethereumdev.io/safemath-protect-overflows/

We've been trying to tackle this at Hexel. We recently launched our own wallet and Discord integration so that you can send coins for free, to any email or Discord user. You can link your token to your Discord server and let anyone send it via chat. This makes it easy to actually use your token after creating it, and no MetaMask is required for most users (everyone except the token creator).

It’s harder now but it’s going to get there! You gotta believe! We’re chasing something interesting and hoping we can keep making it easier and more useful. Right now, we do know it’s harder and people are still choosing to try it for fun! I agree with all your feedback above though and it’s actually really helpful to keep those realities in mind.

You do have to pay gas because it is on the main chain. We are working on a way to make this free in the future.

Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate. We have a CSP in place to keep our site secure, but Firefox enforces it differently than other browsers, which prevents MetaMask from working. To make it work we would have to relax our CSP to the point where it wasn't really secure at all, so for now we don't support FireFox. We put a bounty on Gitcoin for someone to fix it.

I can offer a few reasons, but they might not convince you. Tokens are provably scarce, meaning the supply is limited and can't be changed by the creator of the currency. They're easily exchangeable, which means they can move between platforms and communities. Finally, they can interact with smart contracts, meaning people can enforce the way the token behaves.

I'm actually interested if you can think of a reason too. This is an incredibly difficult brainstorming exercise. So many ICO's have failed to justify their use-cases, but tokens are so interesting that I have to believe there are good reasons to use them. Is there any case that you do find particularly helpful?

Nice, I've never seen that but I'm going to read that whole page. I think that's probably correct about complementary currencies, if they're just currencies. I wonder if it would be different if each of them had actually different properties?

The cool think about tokens is that they can be programmed to behave different ways. Can you imagine a world where each currency is programmed differently? For example, maybe one currency gets deflated with each transaction (gets multipled by 0.9), and another currency can only be sent a certain number of times before it disappears, encourage people to hold it. Can you think of use cases where that changes the utility of a complementary currency? I'm asking because I can think of a few, but it's so hard to tell whether or not they're good ideas.

The second part, outside of that, is that tokens are on a blockchain. Again, none of this is specific to us, but there are a few properties that any token gets. Namely: They are provably scarce, they can interact with smart contracts, and they can be traded for other currencies if necessary.

Thank you, that's really nice of you.

There is no cost per month / year for the existing functionality, it’s all free. The cost later on will be for opt-in features.

Right now we have a single token contract that has been audited. We also have a few other smart contracts in the works, to be used with your token.

By private ledger, do you mean private blockchains? I’ve always been less interested in those. Part of the fun in blockchains is the public nature of them, and how they enable transparency and interaction between everyone. To me, private blockchains seem like they should just be databases in most cases. But I’m not an expert in that area by any means.

Yes, the creator could go trade them on an exchange if they wanted to. But we don’t help people do an ICO or encourage it. I do think tokens made on Hexel could gain value, but that would come from making them useful, not starting off with a scammy ICO.

Haha, well actually we could do that regardless. The purpose of the giveaway is to source more ideas for what people actually want to do with cryptocurrencies, and to make sure our product can serve those use cases.

That’s a question I have too. I don’t want to forcibly put anything on the blockchain. I’m specifically curious about use cases where the decentralization, scarcity, and smart contract pieces of this can become useful. I can’t predict exactly what, but I do think those things will be used for interesting projects and our tools will keep making that easier for people to play with. We’ve listed a few examples of things people are doing above. But right now, I agree that in many ways this is less functional than a database. Right now people use it for fun, and to try out the technology for new things.